The reason that nobody drinks tea in America is because most places just offer Lipton tea. Sorry, but that is a completely inferior product to real tea. We always drank our tea at home with proper tea.

5 comments… ONLY FIVE????? I am either early or read the number wrong. Op, no, I was right… ok I will stop the always talk. I <3 CAKE WRECKS AND EPBOT!!!! I SPELLED IT WRONG!!! I SHOULD STOP YELLING!!!

K, first of all, the bunnies? Funny!And that last cake: a) it already has piping and roses so no shortage on decor b) what is going on with the flag with the sticky note on it? c) we all want sprinkles but wow. Wow. WOW. Someone's going to break a tooth.

wv: hyssinks. (n): A phenomenon that occurs when you are drinking coffee and start to laugh, and have to run over to the sink to convulsively spit out your drink, creating a hissing sound.

While I was enjoying a fine cup of tea as well, I'm afraid the pot/teapot joke went right over my head. Har har. *Ahem* anyway, I thought at first it was a reference to the "tea" in "On the Road," but mainly I was distracted wondering if the drug smugglers ever tried using those T-shirt cannons.

I love the cut a hole in the egg, too but "Relent, ye cad, or next I shall hurl 'yon chafing dish!" made me laught out loud. I had visions of Mony Python and the Holy Grail. I suppose you hurl the tea pot and chafing dish before you bring out the heavy bovine artillary.

Also what is with the white and pink bear/bunny mutant? It has paw pads coming out of its neck.

@Marie, agreement with your statement aside, how can a company dominate the market with a product no one buys? Reminds me a little of Yogi Berra's observation that "No one goes there anymore because it's too crowded."

@Loo-E Loo-I, I've never seen a chamber pot with a spout. Why would... never mind.

I did not see a teapot on the first one for a very long time. I had no idea what the commentary meant in relation to the CCC (patooie!). I saw a lake or pond of some sort with some wonky docks on either side. I thought, "Are there some types of tea that are grown like rice or cranberries in a flooded field of some sort? Or is this a reference to the Boston Tea Party?" I really had to re-read the commentary and scrutinize the picture to figure it out!

What is in the frosting on the Two Rabid Rabbits cake? It looks like gravel in the cake....and are those "mountains" etched into the background or is that a giant crack in the icing? BTW, your commentary here reminded me of a certain romantic cartoon skunk who loved to chase the ladies. Was that intentional? Very nice.

Hee! I was going to say "Not a potty mouth, but a poo-poo mouth" and that's when I got the "oh crap" comment! Methinks I have not had enough caffeine yet this morning!

I thought the first cake was a blue blob with a candy cane stuck through it. I couldn't figure out what the caption was about until I squinted really hard. Then I thought it was a blue blob that was REALLY happy to see me.

@Craig, the same people who buy CCCs, wedding cakes with fountains and staircases, and other cake-related abominations probably also drink Lipton. Or -- even worse-- instant coffee (paTOOIE!)

#1 even with the "tea" on it, and the "pot" clue, it still took a while to get this one. (If they applied that creativity to legal businesses, they'd be quite rich...)

#2 Pink ears, and paws... that may actually be a dog? Pressed up against a window? No tag to indicate how much, though

#3 Eep, it's foaming (in brown?!) at the mouth. And looks REALLY angry... the potty mouth did not agree with it ::shudder::

#4 "Cut a hole in the egg" is a GREAT line! (And comments like that are the reason I've learned NEVER eat or drink while reading this blog)

#5 The background's nice, but those "rabbits" are definitely a mixed species.

#6 A Timmies reference! Mmm, TimBits. ::focus:: Why is there a Malaysian flag on the cake? With a sticker over it? And they decorated OVER the sprinkles! If it were the chocolate sprinkles, I'd think it was a giant rumball. Mmm, rumballs... ok, gotta go--

Look where the egg is, particularly the bottom of the egg. Picture the rabbit is male. Look at the happy and blushing expression on the rabbit's face. Assume the explanation for the explanation has to do with a hole cut in the egg... and realize that it seems that quite a few readers (and authors?) of this blog have very dirty minds.

It took me not once, not twice but THREE separate looks ant the first cake and understand that is was a teapot. I got that it said tea and some how I thought it was a weird ocean cake with a sand bar on each side.

"Cut a hole in the egg"- Classic, now I'm seeing Justin Timberlake dress as the Easter Bunny. What would that bee exactly? Marshmallow peep in a box?

I always pack my Irish Breakfast when we go on a trip because I know I wont be able to get it while we are out. I agree, lipton is dreadful. Not to mention if you ask for hot tea in a restaurant (Unless you find a good Pub) they give you tepid water.

Hey, I live on the Upper Left Coast, and there are a lot of tea drinkers here. And a lot of tea companies. Adn if you ask for tea in a restaurant, it will take two minutes for the waitress to recite the list of available teas. At home I stick with Twinings or Tetley's.

Mmmm sprinkles. Though that last cake I would probably attempt to eat and die from the sugar rush lol. That or break a tooth from all the sprinkles but either way I like it. Wouldn't dare give it to a child though.

@Barbara Anne, at risk of being thought subversive, have to agree on the sprinkles. When I see them, I think, 'mmm, sugary!' The experience that follows is best summed up by the phrase, 'share and enjoy' (which was often repeated during Arthur Dent's efforts to obtain a decent cup of tea) -- it's like eating miniature gravel, only with a less pleasant taste.

Perhaps others know where to obtain sprinkles that do not suck.

It seems no one knows, however, how it is that a company can corner the market on restaurant tea with a product no one wants. Perhaps Lipton is really a subsidiary of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

And, um, I love tea. (REAL homebrewed tea, not that powdery Lipton or fake powdered iced tea crap.) And I'm American. But since I live well north of Florida and a nice hot cup of tea is far more crucial to my winter survival, I will forgive you. ;)

My daughter got the triple chocolate donut at Tim Hortons a few months ago; supposed to have chocolate filling, with chocolate ganache on top, covered in mini-chocolate chips.

As we pulled away from the drive-through, she opened the bag and discovered that her donut had ONE chocolate chip. Not the usual coating of about forty; just one.

NEITHER of us felt the need to go "postal" on Timmies... but I did laugh myself silly the whole way home. If there had been no chips at all, it would have been sad, but somehow that one lonely chip sitting at the middle of the donut was just too hilarious for words.

Hi, just found your site! LOVE IT! I am on the web because I've been asked to make a 'September' cake for church tomorrow, whatever that is! I stumbled upon your site and will be visiting regularly :o)

I'm so glad to see so many fellow tea drinkers who prefer good tea to that pitiful stuff that American Lipton is (I hear the English Lipton's is much superior.) the best tea is from Murchie's of Canada.Now I have to go back to that picture and see if I can puzzle out a teapot in the cake -- I didn't see it before -- it looked like a blue pond over a large candy cane.

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